Liu Tingxun tells us this, and a great deal more besides, in a glowing obituary that he had commissioned himself and which was buried along with his ceramic entourage.
King Ethelred the Unready made have let the Danish to invade and destroy much of England, but at least he gave the English speaking world one of its most popular names.
Maintaining his equanimity until the end, Raleigh is said to have composed one of his best poems, " The Author's Epitaph, Made by Himself, " the night before he died.
The main job is to write articles, write some official epitaphs, official sacrificial texts, etc. In the following years, Du Shenyan also served in the Ministry of Finance and the Imperial Academy.
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And very quietly and compassionately Marlow sometimes lets fall a few words of epitaph which remind us, with all that beauty and brilliancy before our eyes, of the darkness of the background.